Lucille Ball Comedy Festival goes virtual in its 29th year
LOS ANGELES The annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival is going virtual with help from Tiffany Haddish, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Margaret Cho, Weird Al Yankovic and more than two-dozen others working in the realm of humor. The festival, presented by the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, will stream conversations with the artists over three weekends, starting Friday and running through Aug. 30. Other pairings include Cho with host and fellow comedian Judy Gold (10 p.m. EDT Friday); Haddish with comedian Flame Monroe (8 p.m. EDT Aug. 22); political satirist Mark Russell with Lewis Black (8 p.m. EDT Aug. 28). The 29th annual festival will pay tribute to Carl Reiner, the filmmaker and creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show who died in June. A rare Reiner interview from the center's archives will be shown at 8 p.m. EDT Aug. 30, with humorist Paula Poundstone hosting.
Lewis Black brings his sweet and salty rants to Orlando's Bob Carr Theater
click to enlarge Photo via GametimeMonkeys take care better of each other, in terms of a health care system, than we do." "If people have something to yell about Orlando or Florida," says Black. You just go 'wow,'" says Black, describing Scott's cries of fraud during his 2018 U.S. Senate race, without any evidence . ""Don't tell me I haven't been mean to every one of them," Black says.Trump does stand out in one major way, though. And he live-streams that portion on his website.Lewis Black's "It Gets Better Every Day" will be at the Bob Carr Theater on Friday, Feb. 7, at 8 p.m.
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